From Ted McLaughlin at jobsanger:
A few days ago, Hui Chen (the chief ethics officer and head of the Fraud Section of the Criminal Division for the Department of Justice) resigned. She resigned because she could no longer prosecute businesses for violating the same corruption rules that the Trump administration is also engaging in. She told The Hill:
“To sit across the table from companies and question how committed they were to ethics and compliance felt not only hypocritical, but very much like shuffling the deck chair on the Titanic.”
“Even as I engaged in those questioning and evaluations, on my mind were the numerous lawsuits pending against the President of the United States for everything from violations of the Constitution to conflict of interest, the ongoing investigations of potentially treasonous conducts, and the investigators and prosecutors fired for their pursuits of principles and facts.”
“Those are conducts I would not tolerate seeing in a company, yet I worked under an administration that engaged in exactly those conduct. I wanted no more part in it.”
Now we have another ethics watchdog resigning. Walter Schaub Jr. (the director of the Office of Government Ethics) submitted his resignation last Thursday.